DirecTV to air all eight seasons of 24 in HD, commercial free

Great news that 24 is back on the screen!

Are there any news on the movie, tho? It looks to me like they’ve abandoned the project. :/

Harutyun.

Harutyun makes a good point in questioning whether FOX still wants to do the movie, it’s been NINE WHOLE MONTHS since they postponed it to next year… the trouble is, we’re almost into next year and not a dickie-bird has been heard about any further progress made on getting it closer to production!

If Kiefer still has definite plans to shoot that proposed Western with his father next April once he wraps production on ‘Touch’, that’s not going to leave any time for the ’24’ movie before he may have to return to begin shooting a potential third season of ‘Touch’ (if it gets renewed for one, that is)… he’s cutting it a little tight, it would appear to me, unless he’s already gotten either strong indications that FOX aren’t going ahead with the ’24’ movie or that ‘Touch’ won’t be renewed again, in which latter case, he has all the time in the world to do both films!

News or no news, I’m starting to get a bad feeling about this, and it’s a feeling I didn’t have until very recently…

Didn’t Kiefer Sutherland say last year that the script was nearly finished and they were prepping the movie to begin shooting when he finished filming Touch? If what I read on this site from other comments, and the articles about the movie being delayed earlier this year, it would seem that it wasn’t Kiefer Sutherland’s fault but rather 20th Century Fox who wouldn’t green-light the film or give them even remotely what they were asking for in terms of budget needed to do the script they had any justice onscreen. I hope the movie happens but if Kiefer comes back in January (when he’ll be promoting the second series of Touch) and says the fate of the ’24’ movie is still up in the air and Fox hasn’t made a decision yet, I think it’s fair to say it won’t happen this year and as someone else here wrote, Fox won’t have the interest to make it in 2014 if they don’t have the interest to make it in 2013.

Broadcasting the whole series in HD definitely improves the likelihood of 24 being released as a Blu-Ray complete series edition. If it performs well, FOX may finally give in like HBO did for Entourage.

As for the movie, we will see the progress occur within the next few months. Touch is very unlikely getting a 3rd season (the series costs a lot and produced low ratings even in an ideal slot) so Kiefer can do what his fans are counting on.

I said that Kiefer said LAST YEAR that the script was nearly finished, it would be nice if you actually read what I wrote Guest. According to Kiefer, the script has been finished since about March or April of this year – he said it wasn’t finished until very late before he wrapped filming on Touch – and I don’t think it’s either Kiefer’s or Howard Gordon’s fault the movie wasn’t shot by now, it was the studio’s, that being said, I’m glad they waited until 2013 to (hopefully) shoot the movie, had they shot it this year, there simply wasn’t a good time to release it – what with ‘Taken 2’, ‘Skyfall’, ‘The Hobbit’, and ‘A Good Day to Die Hard’ all released within a six month period – now if they start filming in late April and get it done by early/mid July, they could get it finished and ready for release in November 2013, that’s what I would do anyway.

No probs there, Guest, and no need to apologize, my above post sounded a little more confrontational than was intended, just keep on what you’re doing here, your okay in my book.

BMAN dude, Jonathan Nolan is already committed to ‘Person of Interest’ for the foreseeable future – he’s explicitly stated he’s in it for the long run – besides, the ’24’ movie script is finished, and if both Kiefer Sutherland and Howard Gordon and Brian Grazer are all happy with the script as is, why tinker with it (a few inevitable spit-and-polish revisions before production notwithstanding)…?

Speaking of scripts, the Skyfall script had several elements that we’ve already seen in 24 – the spy list falling on the hands of an enemy, Bond working with a character using computers to track enemy and head of intelligence agency being replaced with a new person

BMAN dude, you are so right about FOX’s treatment of the ’24’ movie it hurts… really! I too am utterly bewildered and perplexed that the studio hasn’t committed to the movie yet, considering they (Imagine Entertainment) want to commence filming this coming April or May, and even that’s not a definite…

And you’re right about the price tag issue, most big studio action pictures today are almost all in the $100m-$150m range, you would think making a big-screen version of a phenomenally successful series, with an in-built worldwide audience, for a mere $45m would be a no-brainer for any studio, but the whole idea of comparing the FIRST ’24’ movie with the SECOND ‘X-Files’ movie (as FOX is seemingly doing) is a total red herring;

1) ’24’ was still pulling in (relatively) strong ratings when it ended whereas the audience at large had deserted ‘The X-Files’ long before it ended.

2) ‘The X-Files’ already had made the transition to the big screen in 1998 (and very successfully too), so the novelty (not to mention the audience) was no longer there for the 2008 second film, ’24’ has yet to make that transition, so there would still be a certain novelty factor seeing Jack Bauer on the big screen, with all the added bells and whistles that encompasses.

3) The second ‘X-Files’ film – whilst still a highly enjoyable and refreshingly atmospheric, intelligent, and thoughtful little film – simply wasn’t really an ‘X-Files’ case as such; there was very little to no actual real supernatural, paranormal, or extraterrestrial content in the film, and it didn’t really explore any new ideas or develop the lead characters’ story arc in any substantive way. The ’24’ movie will (hopefully) retain what made the series so great; pulse-pounding action and suspense, strong characters, and great emotional human drama… if it manages that, it’ll likely be a success.

I’m still hopeful it will happen, a little less than before I’ll admit, but all it takes is one news item telling us it’s been given the go-ahead and all will be well with the world again… if not, then DAMMIT!!!

I say that because Jonathan Nolan compares to much of the superhero world to his material. Look at Person of interest all tho I like the show I debate in my head sometimes weather it’s worth watching still mainly because of it’s inconsistency in storyline the man in the suit idea. They made John reese like a hitman which he is not he’s a former CIA operative NOT a hitman. Givin the idea his presumed dead yet he still wares the hitman suit doesn’t make a whole lot of since when the FBI is looking for him.The first season was consistent this second not so much. & look at this thursdays episode there just now coming back with the government storyline between John & the FBI after they give you the impression they were done with it. Well there just now catching us up? I don’t see Jack Bauer as a super hero I see him as Kiefer sees him a highly trained field operative a Patriot who sacrificed everything for his country. They didn’t have to make John this hitman like character with certain batman elements to him. John was fine in the pilot with light brown leather Jacket. when the writers of 24 wrote for Jack there stories were well thought out & generally most of the time made since. Person of interest writers went from being consistent to inconsistent & has become a bit predicable & there’s to much of that in T.V already that’s not interesting to me anymore after sticking with 24.

@Guest… Well lets just say that we agree to disagree. Jonathan Nolan is the top of his game right now and if someway he can help in anyway with the 24 script then the movie will be elevated to a whole new level in my opinion. Person Of Interest is having a great second season and when i’m watching the show i’m not thinking about Batman. I’m enjoying the show for what it is. Pure and simple entertainment because after all is only just a tv show.

Did anybody see the new trailer for the new Die Hard 5 movie? The film looks like a $100m crapfest. FOX is willing to spend big bucks on making lousy movies but won’t greenlight a 24 movie because it’s too risky. The people over at FOX are idiots!!!

Well they can manage to make Taken & taken 2 which I loved btw but there fecal about Putting somebody like Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer who fits in that category with Bond & bourne in a story which it’s about time they have that anyone who loves thrillers would be dieing to go see. I guess this year we’ll found out eventually where everyone stands about this movie. Both taken movies had everything 24 did already suspense/action drama characters with lives & a bit of torture. 24’s done all those things. But from what I read everyone’s schedules need to be panned out & they need more time to prepare Kiefer’s said there all satisfied with the script so at least there’s that.

‘Taken’ had a $30m budget whilst ‘Taken 2′ had a $45m budget which gives you a fair approximation of what the ’24’ movie would look like if either it had been made with the $30m that 20th Century Fox seemingly want to give it or if it was made with the $45m that Imagine Entertainment would prefer to have.

My own opinion, for what it’s worth, is the ’24’ movie shouldn’t cost more than $40m ideally, especially if both the Eastern European-set and set-based scenes in the film are filmed somewhere extremely cost effective, like Bulgaria (where ‘Conan the Barbarian’, ‘The Expendables 2’, and the upcoming new ‘Die Hard’ film were all filmed in), where it’s 40% cheaper than any other European country and 80% cheaper than either the U.K. or U.S. to film in, and where you could get considerably more bang for your buck.

A tight but totally reasonable $40m budget and a release date of late October 2013 would be the preferable options I believe, but whether the studio bigwigs think likewise we shall soon discover when Kiefer starts doing interviews for ‘Touch’ later this month.

I personally would love to see them get someone like Ridley Scott to direct the movie that is if they’re ever going to get this off the ground. I know I sound like a broken record but I think they need to find a way to get Tony in the movie as well even if it means he has to die at least find a way to redeem himself & give him a heroes death not just make him an afterthought rotting in prison or on deathrow. He contributed too much to the show & it’s the movies they can certainly find away to bring him back they’ve done it before & it led to my opinion one of if not the best seasons. Seasons 6 & 8 just didn’t have the same feel without him but regardless of which direction they go PLEASE GET THIS MOVIE MADE. I think I speak for most when I say TV hasn’t been the same without 24 & we fans deserve to get some kind of closure for Jack live or die.

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